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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

I never got this lucky when I did home improvements.

A Somerset couple found a mural of Henry VIII in their home.

Some people have all the luck. Several years ago, after my husband and I moved into our 1920's era house, we started to remove the grandma inspired wall paper. Layer after painful layer, we were exposed to the hideous decorating choices of our predecessors. Seriously, when was it ever fashionable to have diarrhea brown and pee yellow striped wall paper? Who ever thought that this was a good color combination should have been placed in the tower or at least lost their wall paper design job. It makes you wonder if incontinence was an issue for a previous owner. Yes... an unsettling thought.

Moving on...After the final layer of wall paper was removed, we saw a beautiful white plaster wall. If you've ever removed wall paper, you understand that it is truly breathtaking. Call the art experts, because this is a sight truly to behold. A bare plaster wall from a 1920's condo, however, doesn't hold a candle to a recently discovered mural of Henry VIII in a private residence.

A couple in Somerset, England were renovating their home and after chipping away layers of wood paneling, discovered a mural painted of Henry VIII sitting upon his throne. Obviously the couple and art historians are excited by this find saying that the mural is, "enormously significant, stunningly exciting and of national importance"

Yea... why couldn't I have found a mural of President Herbert Hoover or Franklin Roosevelt in my living room? Think of the resale value that would have added to my home? Now, instead of an art treasure, I have beige walls and the memory of incontinence inspired wall paper.